When I was growing up, I would see others that appeared to be successful to me. They had a big house, nice car(s), some toys (electronics, etc.). I quickly related success to things. To put this another way, I would measure success based on money. In order to be successful, you had to make lots […]
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Being a stay at home mom is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I don’t know if it’s just me (there’s no way it can be just me), but something that doesn’t seem like it should be so emotionally, mentally and physically exhausting just is. Big time. There are parents out there who make it look
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We all want to be more successful in life. We read books, listen to podcasts, really anything that we think might give us an edge. But I wonder how many people question themselves? Not in the sense of doubting their abilities or the decisions they have made, but rather asking yourself the right questions so
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There’s a book, popular during my childhood, which I read to my children sometimes. It has strange but lovely pearls of wisdom in it, such as “If one day you must leave home, draw stars on the bottoms of your shoes to light your way back” and “If your horse needs shoes, let him use
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We all want to be happy. Sadly, many of us tie success to happiness and decide that the only way to be happy is to be successful. When, or maybe even if, we realize that success isn’t a straight line, we are perpetually unhappy. I am here to change that. In a previous post I
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Remember Pollyanna, the eternally optimistic heroine of book and screen? I watched the Hailey Mills version as a child many times, and one thing I still think of from the movie is her “glad game”, a game which involved finding something to be glad about in everything, even her own (temporary) paralysis. While the glad
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We tend to want to know reasons. Why did she break up with me? Why didn’t I get that job? The list goes on and on. We spend so much time dwelling on the past when we should be focused on the present and thoughts of the future and what is ahead of us. A
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It seems inevitable with young children that someone will get sick over the holidays. In fact, with one in pre-school and the other in a pre-pre-school play group, my family is pretty much some kind of sick from October to March. This December was no different, and we spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve snuggled
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